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These step-by-step guides help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008. They are not as visually great as the guides I try to create, however they are still helpful. Original article @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=518D870C-FA3E-4F6A-97F5-ACAF31DE6DCE&displaylang=en Creating_and_Deploying_Active_Directory_Rights_Management_Services_Templates_Step-by-Step_Guide.doc 158KB Download Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services in a Multiple Forest Environment Step-by-Step Guide.doc 314KB Download Deploying Active […]

Issue: Tried to deploy a custom solution on a SharePoint 2010 farm from Central Administration > System Settings > Manage Farm solutions. I received the following error in the ULS logs. Access denied. Only machine administrators are allowed to create administration service job definitions of type: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSolutionDeploymentJobDefinition, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c Fix: This fix only […]

Original post @ Techscrawl.com Microsoft’s NLB Clustering is kind of to High Availability Load Balancing what Natural Light is to the beer world. Both will basically get the job done, and on the cheap, but in the long run they might leave you with a wicked headache and wishing you spent a few extra dollars […]

In this article we will change the default listening port for RDC/RDP from 3389 to 5555. This is useful when you want to prevent external or internal users from scanning port 3389 to see what computers are available to connect to. Sure they can scan port 5555 however it is another step for an intruder […]

I have 5 SharePoint Servers; I would like to disable a couple unused and unnecessary services on all of them. Create Organizational Unit (OU) The first thing I am going to do is create an OU (Organizational Unit) in AD and add these servers to the OU Within “Active Directory Users and Computers” right click […]

From my Windows Server 2008 machine, I will be running DCPROMO to turn it into a domain controller for my new domain. Prerequisites Networking Before we run DCPROMO, we need to make sure we have a Static IP Address set. If this is your first Domain Controller on your network set the DNS server to […]

Hyper-V™ provides software infrastructure and basic management tools in Windows Server® 2008 that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. This virtualized environment can be used to address a variety of business goals aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs. For example, a virtualized server environment can help you: …

You enter a default gateway and the gateway disappears, not even after a reboot – it just disappears in a couple of minutes. I’ve recently ran into this issue on a couple of Windows Server 2008 guest machines in a VMWare environment. I am not sure if it is isolated to VMWare. I could not […]

A nice feature that can sometimes by annoying is the Shutdown Event Tracker, that allows you to comment every time you shut off a server. While I do understand the auditing requirements to have this in place on production server, this feature is unnecessary for development and test servers and can be disabled. …

It’s possible to Force SSL on web pages using ASP. In this article I will show you how to accomplish this. To do this you need to do 2 things. Create a ForceSSL.asp page Set the file as an include on any pages that require SSL ForceSSL.asp Within your website create a file called ForceSSL.asp. […]

When attempting to view a MOSS (SharePoint) 2007 or SharePoint 2010 site locally from a Web Front End (WFE) you get an error stating: “HTTP Error 401.1 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.” I have noticed that this happens on Windows 2003/2008 Server SP1/SP2/R2 when using Host Headers and Alternate Access Mappings […]

In this article I will load balance 2 servers and take you through the process step-by-step. Load Balancing takes 2 or more servers and lets them share one IP address so both servers can serve client requests. At the end of this article you should be able to configure NLB. Gathering Information …

In this article I will move an SSL certificate from a Windows 2003 Server box to a Windows Server 2008 machine. We will need to export the certificate on the 2003 Server and import and configure the SSL certificate on the 2008 Server. This article is divided into 4 sections: Export …